I don't remember the last time I had search/browsing history enabled.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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I've thought about this. I think the next anonymity products will be LLM agents designed to obfuscate.
Just clear the relevant domain out of the history.
Not empty. Yet gone.
Unless you use Librewolf
Librewolf can be trained to remember some pages if you want them to.
Of course, it can do everything Firefox can do if you play around with the settings. I don't think it's a good idea to deviate much from stock though. I use Firedragon now. It's sort of an in-between.
firedragon is an epic name. I might check it out just because of that
Mine just wipes every time I close the browser
Same, I don't really do "browser history"
Do you also wipe cookies, leading to needing to relogin every time you visit a site
Yes
That's very annoying
I have a password database that is secure and offline.
Why the hell would I want my browser to store my passwords?
Do you get autofill?
Hell no.
Copy, paste. Done.
aint there stuff that can read your clipboard?
Each website must request and be granted by the user that explicit permission. Barring that, a bad actor would have to physically access your computer to install a keylogger (or I suppose one could be installed through a phishy attachment). Clipboard-stealing isn't anywhere near as big of an issue as cookie-/session-stealing.
Meh, not really. It only takes a few extra seconds and keytaps to logon with a password manager.
Accidentally closing the browser when not done however, that's annoying
It's not just navigating the pwd mgr; it's also all the 2FA. Or do you integrate the two? If so, why? The whole point of 2FA is to be separate from one's passwords for greater security.
it's a couple clicks on Proton Pass. takes 6 seconds.
minor inconveniences are the cost of privacy and security.
Just add exceptions for the sites you login to. You already have a user account on their site, deleting cookies at the end of each session won't do much for these sites anyway.
I do. A self-hosted password manager makes it only a second or two inconvenience for most sites. The worst ones are the ones that send you a code for 2FA, but still, with those it's a 10-15 second inconvenience. One thing I've learned in my quest for proper digital privacy is that I had to give up my obsession of convenience. I used to be the guy that lost my mind when my internet was even a tiny bit slow, but I've had to get comfortable with not getting what I want immediately. I genuinely think it's made me a better person in other areas as well, but that could just be cope lol
You can add exceptions, but yes
Just use private tabs?
Browser history can be so useful (for looking up visited pages), and I dunno, archiving stuff just has an appeal of its own!
random junk goes in private windows. but stuff i might want a history of (research or work related, for instance) to go back later for, stays on the normal window and history.
My problem is that I rarely ever know if the "random junk" that I look up may be useful to return to later.
and that's where my 1000s of bookmarks came from.
When a boomer shows you a cringe thirst trap on their tiktok feed and is like “who wants to see this?” You don’t know how algorithms work do yah uncle Scott lol
Even the algorithm shows new stuff sometimes just to see if it sticks. I get makeup and hair videos occasionally even though I'm male in late 30s that never showed any interest in such things.
Well, at the very start the feed isn't empty too
Yeah... my youtube throws them into the shorts every now and then. It's just fucking annoying. You're youtube, they're not even going to show anything anyway stick to the shit I actually click on.
A better way to use Youtube is to turn off watch history, and use Subscriptions as your homepage. Youtube taught me this a while back when they turned off my watch history and then insisted I signed into it to use it.
Better than that is Freetube with an extension that opens browser links in Freetube.
One will get you fired, the other makes it just that bit harder to prove.
aka "If you're innocent, you got nothing to hide"
Basically, only delete your browser history if the reality is worse than what people will imagine.
If reality is worse than what people could imagine, you need to unplug.
My browsing history would probably be more boring than what people would imagine. But it's my browser history, eyes off!
Yeah, my browser history is significantly more tame than my bookshelf these days
Or -- get this! -- you can use a private tab/window for the really bad stuff, so it won't get saved in your browser history. Then you can still have a browser history full of benign things, rather than an empty one.
Also very useful: Firefox has a feature of [Menu --> History --> Clear Recent History...] -- that allows you to delete any trace of sites you've visited within a given timeframe, with choices of 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, or all day. If it's something older than that, you can also browse through your history and manually delete anything objectionable.
False
Yeah wtf is this bullshit? You either find "minions but purple plus miniature vore butthole no laughing sex avocado and pineapple insertion" vs ...nothing.
I tried to teach my grandpa's crabs how to read but he smacked me and told me to stop talking to his pubes
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